Doddridge County Community Foundation
DCCF is OUR Community’s Foundation. It is a nonprofit public charity formed by local
citizens to build permanent, dedicated resources to benefit Doddridge County residents,
causes, and nonprofit organizations now and far into the future. We create permanent
charitable funds called endowments that supply resources to make grants that meet
important community needs and supply scholarships for local students.
We are managed by a local advisory board of Doddridge County citizens. We have chosen
to affiliate with the Parkersburg Area Community Foundation (PACF), a well-respected local
Foundation that has provided deserving students with scholarships, worthy organizations
with grants, and delivered charitable resources to our region since 1963. Our affiliate
relationship brings us shared administrative and investment services and professional staff
expertise, while letting us focus exclusively on developing resources for our
county – Doddridge County – and our unique needs and vision of our future.
DCCF provides a lasting, local, flexible, and easy way to support our community. The Foundation
is a public charity, tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; donors receive
the maximum possible tax advantages for gifts.
DCCF can accept many different types of gifts – you can contribute cash, securities, real estate,
life insurance, tangible property, make a bequest in a will, create a charitable remainder or lead
trust, or use other types of deferred giving. We welcome the opportunity to work with donors to
explore all giving options. Donors can contribute any amount for unrestricted purposes (for use
in community grantmaking); make a gift in honor of or in memory of a loved one; add to an existing
fund to strengthen it; or even set up their own named funds to provide funding for charitable
causes that are important to them. With a certain minimum sum, donors can create their own fund,
which allows one to name the fund and establish the charitable purpose and use of the fund.
To contribute any cash to any existing DCCF fund or for use in community grantmaking, please
mail checks to the Doddridge County Community Foundation, P.O. Box 92, West Union, WV 26456. To
contribute stock (or other types of assets), please call the Foundation’s Executive Director,
Judy Sjostedt, toll free at 1-866-428-4438 for information and instructions.
Contact Sarah Holt, our Program and Development Specialist, via email at sarah.holt@pacfwv.com
or by phone at 304-428-4438 or Judy Sjostedt, DCCF (PACF) Executive Director at 304-428-4438
(toll free 1-866-428-4438), fax 428-1200, or via email at info@pacfwv.com. Our Board members
also welcome inquiries from persons interested in helping Doddridge County causes and organizations.
DCCF’s volunteer advisory board is made up of local business and community leaders to oversee all
Foundation activities. Current DCCF Board members include Board Chairman Tom Whaling, Vice Chair
Helen Griffith, Secretary Sandy White, and members Earl Daugherty, Sylvia Leggett, Tara Bee, Doug
Gelhaar, Hazel Wysong, and Sheryl Webb. The DCCF Board works in conjunction with the Board of the
Parkersburg Area Community Foundation through our status as an affiliate and has a Board seat on
the PACF Board as a part of our partnership for the good of our region.
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